Chapter 432: The Award Ceremony Begins
Entering the venue of the award ceremony, a staff member immediately stepped forward to take Xiao Yao and Gong Chen to their seats.
"Yo, look at this position, I'm afraid you won't get less prizes tonight!" was brought to the seat by the staff, Gong Chen said to Xiao Yao with a smile.
The seating arrangement of the stars at the awards ceremony is also very particular, in addition to not arranging the stars who have a tense private relationship or have a holiday together, the star's seating position can also show the celebrity's fame and the likelihood of winning the award.
Generally speaking, celebrities with relatively large fame are located in the front of the audience and near the middle area, because people in this area have the most opportunities to appear in the camera. In addition, on this basis, the more likely the star is to win the award, the higher the position and the closer to the aisle, which can facilitate the star to get up on stage to receive the award, save the time spent on the stage to receive the award, and try to avoid crowding with the people in the next position when going on stage.
The seat assigned to Xiao Yao by the staff was next to the right aisle in the third row in the middle area, which was one of the best seats in the audience. Judging from this position, it seems that Xiao Yao will not be less likely to accept the award on stage tonight.
"Lend you auspicious words!please!" Xiao Yao smiled, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please, allowing Gong Chen to sit down first.
Although it was a red carpet where partners walked together, Xiao Yao and Gong Chen's positions were not arranged together. Even though they are in the same row, there are two places in between. However, Gong Chen was not dissatisfied with this arrangement, because the staff introduced that the two positions between them were reserved for Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying. Everyone is a company, and it's okay to sit together. If Xiao Yao wins the award, Xiao Yao's interaction with her parents will definitely be more interesting than her colleague and friend, so the people in Qijia Studio have no objection to the organizer's arrangement.
Xiao Yao and Gong Chen sat down, and the two empty seats in the middle were a little embarrassing and abrupt, but this situation did not last long. After a while, Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying were also led by the staff to their seats.
"Dad, why is it so long?You have also been pulled by Lu Ke and asked for a long time?" Xiao Yao got up and let go of the outside position, and asked Xiao Siqi by the way. The red carpet order of Xiao Siqi and Ye Jiaying's group is behind Xiao Yao and Gong Chen, and from the estimation of the time they came in, the two have obviously been interviewed by Lu Ke.
"Don't mention it, half of the questions Lu Ke asked me are related to you. Xiao Siqi shook his head and sighed, "I should have insisted on your proposal in the first place, if only the two of us walked the red carpet together." ”
"Boss, then I can't sit here. Hearing this, Gong Chen stretched out his head and looked sideways at Xiao Siqidao.
"What's the matter, is it aggrieved to walk the red carpet with me?" Ye Jiaying also turned her head to look at Xiao Siqi and said.
"No, no," Xiao Siqi hurriedly said, "I mean Lu Ke, obviously Bayi is in front of us, she must have been interviewed by her, and she pulled me to ask a bunch of questions about Bayi, and I don't know how she is the host." ”
"Sister Ke!" Xiao Yao turned his head to look behind Xiao Siqi and said.
"Huh?" Xiao Siqi hurriedly looked back, but found that there was nothing behind him, and there was no figure of Lu Ke at all.
"You kid, even your dad is playing!" Xiao Siqi patted Xiao Yao on the back of the head dissatisfied.
"You deserve it!" Ye Jiaying said with a smile, "Who let you say bad things about people behind your back, you have a weak heart!"
The family of three laughed for a while, and then quieted down. They were originally arranged to walk the red carpet in a relatively backward position, and there are not many stars behind them. In other words, it was not long before the awards ceremony began.
At 7:50 p.m., the red carpet show ended, all the stars entered, the lights above the stage were completely extinguished, and preparations began. At eight o'clock, the lights above the auditorium suddenly became much dimmer, and the audience suddenly fell silent.
"Welcome to the "Golden Disc" Award Ceremony, the award ceremony is now officially begins! First of all, please invite the opening performers to bring tonight's opening performance!"
"Wow~" The ordinary audience in the middle and back areas of the audience let out a burst of cheers, and the celebrity guests sitting in front also laughed and applauded, and all turned their eyes to the stage in front.
However, even with the sound of announcing the start of the awards ceremony, the lights above the stage still did not turn on, and the stage was still very dim, and only the silhouettes of a few figures could be seen in shadows.
Amidst applause and cheers, the sound of violin and piano sounded in the live stereos. Everyone understood that this was the musical prelude to the opening performance, and the star guests in front stopped clapping, and the cheers of the audience in the back also weakened a lot.
"Hmph~," a chuckle sounded, followed by a female monologue: "After All You Put Me Through, You Think I Despise You, But In The End, I anna Thank You, Cause You Make Me That Much Stronger..."
After the monologue of "ell I Thought I Kne You, Thinking That You ere True~", a rich female voice exploded in the ears of the audience, and at the same time, the stage lights were brightly lit, and the whole picture of the stage was finally displayed in front of the audience's eyes.
"Wow~"
"Xue Ying!
As soon as the dazzling lighting background and stunning performers appeared, the audience and celebrity guests all sent a round of applause and cheers, and some fans even stood up and chanted the names of their idols.
The performers and songs of the opening performance are very familiar to the audience and celebrity guests, and it is the overseas propaganda song "Fighter" sung by Liang Xueying of the Chinese Basketball Professional League! Xiao Yao did have a performance tonight, but the new song he prepared was a relatively quiet folk song, which was not suitable as an opening performance to drive the atmosphere of the scene, so the organizers chose Liang Xueying, the song "Fighter" that had detonated the audience at the opening ceremony of the basketball league, as the opening performance of tonight's awards ceremony.
"Xue Ying's look today is very impactful!" Xiao Siqi turned his head and whispered to Xiao Yao, "It's very different from when she performed at the opening ceremony of the basketball league." ”
At this time, Liang Xueying on the stage tied her long hair into a high ponytail, the upper body was a dark red sports bra, the lower body was leather shorts and black boots below the knee, covered with a red boxing cape, and her hands were wrapped with white bandages, which was obviously a look close to that of a boxer.
The accompanying dancers behind her are similar to Liang Xueying, but only her boxing cape is sleeveless, and her belt is not tied up, and it can be seen from the close-up given on the big screen at the scene that her hands, arms and abdomen have obvious muscle outlines. The whole shape is very visually impactful, which can give people a strong sense of strength, and she is a "fighter" she sings!
"Well, it did work very well, but she didn't put a lot of thought into it. Xiao Yao nodded and said, "For tonight's performance, she deliberately went to the gym to practice for a month." She even wanted me to teach her some boxing moves, but I didn't have time, so I introduced Hiroko to her. ”
"You weren't available a month ago? You're in Yanjing, and you don't have to participate in the Spring Festival Gala, how can you not be available? I think you're just lazy, right?" Xiao Siqi glanced at Xiao Yao and ruthlessly exposed his lies.
"It's good to know, why do you have to say it. Xiao Yao touched his nose, "But it's good for Haozi to teach." He is a professional boxer, a professional athlete, boxing moves are more standard than me, and he knows more about strength and physical fitness than me, and he definitely teaches better than me. And he also likes Sister Xueying and her songs, and giving Haozi a chance to be an idol's personal trainer is a great thing for both of them. ”
"You always have a reason!" Xiao Siqi smiled, then glared again, "So, Xue Ying's performance will also have boxing moves?"
"She appeared in this image, so there should be. She didn't learn boxing with Haozi to learn to fight. Xiao Yao smiled.
Sure enough, when Liang Xueying sang the last sentence of the chorus, the elbow of her left hand holding the microphone was raised, and the whole person twisted around and threw a powerful right hook to the audience! With this right hook, the lights on the stage suddenly brightened, and a bunch of electric sparks exploded next to it, falling to the stage one after another.
Of course, this is just the lighting effect of the scene, not the real explosion of the overload of the lighting system, the lights on the scene are still on. However, such a scene completely ignited the passion of the audience and made the atmosphere of the scene explode. Many ordinary spectators in the back row of the audience stood up from their seats, chanting Liang Xueying's name, and even some celebrity guests in the front row stood up from their seats and raised their arms in cheers.
“So Thanks For Making Me A Fighter!” With the last line of singing and accompaniment stopping at the same time, Liang Xueying also ended the performance of the whole song with a boxing action freeze-frame shape again.
The audience seemed to feel that Liang Xueying's last sentence "Fighter" was echoing in their ears, and they unconsciously paused slightly, and then applauded and cheered. This time, almost half of the celebrity guests in the front row stood up.
"Thank you," Liang Xueying returned to her normal standing posture amid the applause and cheers of the audience. After getting up, Liang Xueying, whose chest was obviously still slightly undulating, stretched out a finger to point to the audience and said in English, "Thank you!" Thank You For Making A Fighter For Me!”
"Wow~" There were several exclamations among the celebrity guests in the front row.
A crane camera at the scene pushed the camera towards the audience in the direction pointed by Liang Xueying, and the large screen on the scene also switched to the picture taken by this camera.
"Wow~" Seeing Xiao Yao appear on the big screen at the scene, a louder exclamation sounded at the scene.
Seeing Xiao Yao, who originally gave a thumbs up on the stage on the big screen, smiled and waved his hand with some embarrassment, many people suddenly realized that Liang Xueying's last sentence was not exactly the same as the last lyrics in the song, but different. Thinking of this, there was another louder cheer at the scene.
The Chinese meaning of the last sentence in the lyrics is thank you for making me a fighter, and Liang Xueying's last sentence translates to thank you for writing (making) a fighter for me. English sounds very close, but the meaning is very different, she is publicly thanking Xiao Yao on stage for writing this song for her.
Liang Xueying has said more than once since her debut that her idol is a diva female singer in the United States, and she has been working hard to develop in the direction of internationalization. However, although she has achieved very good results in China over the years, her results in the European and American markets have been relatively average, and several English songs released in the standard European and American markets have never entered the top 50 on the American billboard.
But her song "Fighter" has not only reached the top 20 on the US Billboard, but has also rushed to the top of the music charts in many countries in Europe, which is not a little better than the results of her previous songs. At the end of last year, she also won the opportunity to perform at several large-scale music festivals and music awards ceremonies in Europe and the United States with this song, and she can already be said to be an internationally renowned singer.
In addition to the general music promotion channels, a very important reason why this song is widely known abroad is that this song is an overseas promotional song of the Chinese Basketball Professional League, and many basketball fans know and like this song because of the blood-boiling basketball league promotional video. This song was written by Xiao Yao for Liang Xueying, and it was also Xiao Yao's reason why it was selected by the Basketball Association as the overseas promotional song of the Basketball League, so it is not difficult to understand that Liang Xueying publicly expressed her gratitude to Xiao Yao on this occasion.
Amid the cheers of the audience, Liang Xueying withdrew with several backup dancers and left the stage.
"Please host the award ceremony..."The sound of introduction sounded in the sound of the scene, and the four hosts, two men and two women, also walked on the stage together in the introduction.
The four of them introduced themselves and said a few opening remarks before entering the awarding process.
"The first award we presented tonight is the Best Newcomer Award, and I would like to invite the award presenters..."
At many award ceremonies, the newcomer award is presented at the top position, and the "Golden Disc" award is no exception.
Previously, the newcomer award of the "Golden Disc" award was only two awards: Best New Singer and Best New Singer. Among them, there is only one best new singer regardless of gender, which is different from many music awards in the past and present life, and has also caused some controversy, but it is still retained by the "Golden Disc" award as a unique feature. However, this characteristic has not been maintained to the end, and they still made changes last year.
After Xiao Yao, who performed exceptionally well the year before last, was selected as the best newcomer singer the year before last, this controversy was unprecedentedly strong, and many fans expressed great dissatisfaction with the "Golden Disc" award. Because Fan Linxuan had the "hard index" of defeating Xiao Yao to win the championship on "The Voice", and Xiao Yao helped him to accompany him to win the championship, later Fan Linxuan entered Xiao Yao's studio and became Xiao Yao's colleague, Xiao Yao also helped Fan Linxuan write a song, and the relationship between the two was very good, so Xiao Yao's fans did not have much opinion on Fan Linxuan winning the award, and finally pointed the finger at the setting of the award.
The other awards are one for the best newcomer male singer and one for the best newcomer female singer, so why is there only one "Golden Disc" award? If there is one best newcomer male singer and one best newcomer female singer, then Xiao Yao and Fan Linxuan will be happy for each other? Even if they are not die-hard fans of Xiao Yao and Fan Linxuan, ordinary fans also feel that both of them should win the award back then, and there are a lot of remarks on the Internet criticizing the stubbornness and old-fashioned nature of the "Golden Disc" award.
Although the organizing committee of the "Golden Disc" Award finally compromised under the pressure of unprecedentedly strong public opinion, and divided the Best New Singer Award into two awards last year: Best New Male Singer and Best New Female Singer, but except for proving Xiao Yao's influence from the side, it did not have any substantial impact on Xiao Yao. The change in the award setting only gives future rookie singers an additional chance to win awards, and it is absolutely impossible to reissue Xiao Yao with a trophy for the best rookie singer.
For Xiao Yao, who is on the scene today, the change in the award setting also means that he has to wait a little longer before he has the opportunity to hear his name. Because although Xiao Yao has received a lot of nominations this year, as a musician who has been nominated for the third year, he has long been ineligible to compete for any newcomer awards, and the first three newcomer awards cannot have anything to do with it.